Electric-lamp holder.



S. CLARK. ELECTRIC LAMP HOLDER.

APPLICATION IILBD 0050.30, 191? Patented Apr. 8, 1913 rarnnr enrich.

ELEGTRIC'LAMP nonnnru.

reas ess.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 8,1913.

Application filed October 36,1912. Serial Etc. 728,606.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, SAMUEL Clean, a

citizen of the United States, residing at,

Middlcsex and Marlboro, in the county of State of Massachusetts, have'invented. new and useful Improvements in Electric-Lamp Holders, of which the following is specification.

This invention relates to a holder for electric lamps.

The object of a light and simple deyice capable of'supporting an electric lamp in different positions and capable of'being placed upon the topof a table or other-horizontal surface and also capable of being attached to dili'ercut articles of furniture, such as the backs ofchairs, the frames of mirrors, and set at different angles thereon to throw the light in any desired or convenient direction.

The invention consists in an electric lamp holder such as hereinafter set forth in the specification and particularly as pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a plan view of a piece of sheet metal from which may be formed my improved electric lamp holder. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the holder showing an electric lamp and its cord attached thereto as the same would be used when laid upon a stationary horizontal surface of a piece of furnituresuch as: the top of a table.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the holder showing the same attached to a suitable bracket or standard, said bracket or standard being adapted to rest upon a table or mantel. Fig. i is a side elevation of the holder with a lamp attached thereto showing the same in one position in full lines attached to the back rail of a chair, such as a rocker or Morris easy chair, and in dotted lines in the same figure the holder is shown in another position supported upon the same piece of furniture.

Like numerals refer tolike'parts through out the several views of the drawings.

In the drawings, 6 is a pieceof sheet metal illustrated in Fig 1 in the shape in which it appears before being bent to form the holder 7. Said piece of sheet metal preferably hasbeveled corners 8 and has three holes 9, 10 and 11 punched therethrough. The hole 9 in the completed holder is for the purpose of suspending the holder from a nail or hook. is provided for the attaching means where-- the invention is to provide The hole 10 12 is a tongue stamped up from the sheet metal piece 6 and entirely detached from said sheet metal piece except at one end of said tongue, viz; along the dotted line'c (Fig.1). i

The piece of metal 6 is bent to form the U-shaped jaw 13, said jaw'having a closed end 1 1 and two legs 15 and metal forming the jaw extending from the free end of the leg '16 backwardly therebeneath and extending baekwardly beyond the closed end of the jaw forming a base 17 base 17 and its free end rests against the it is preferably attached, either by solder or by any other suitable fastening means.

. The closed end 1-1 of the jaw 13 is bent transversely thereof to form a rib 18 which extends between the legs 15 and 16 of the U for a short-distance and toward the free ends of said legs.

An electric lamp 19 of usual design provided with a socket 20 is clamped by a bushing 21 to the tongue 12, the bushing21 having a head 22 thereon which rests against the under side of the tongue 12 and also having a screw-threaded shank 23 which projects through the hole 10 in the tongue 12 and has screw-threaded engagement with the socket 20 whereby said socket is clamped Zfirmly to'the tongue 12.

' A flexible electric conductor 24 of the usual well known construction extends from the socket 20 along between the leg 16 and base 17 and through the hole 11, this hole preferably being located at the bentpor- 16 to the base 17. By] this construction. it will be seen that the lainp is held firmly in position and that the electric conductor is protected and also held firmly in position on the holder, and that said electric conductor is thus positioned so as to have no tendency to cause the holder to tip or become in any way displaced In Fig. 2 theholder'is'showu as resting on its base in the position which it would occupy if placed on top of a or the like. V

In Fig. 3 the holder 7 is shown supported upon a bracket or standard This bracket has a transversely extending supporting arm 26 the top of the standard 25 and by the electriclamp is clamped to the holder.

16, the sheet losed end 1 1 of the U-shaped jaw to which \hle, mantel holder 7 which, as awhole, consists of the The. tongue .12 is bent upwardly from the v '95 tion of the holder wh ch connects the leg base and a tongue projecting from said base is also provided with a base 21' in orderthat the saline in 1, stand firmly upon a table, mantel ('it'i'he 'iltc.

In Fig. l the holder is shown with its lamp supported upon a back rail ofa rocking chair or Morris chair and is shown in two positions. In the, position shown in :tull lines the curved portion 29 of the holder j .l'tdio' upon tlre'uppcr edge of the rail while in the position shown in dotted lines the curved portion 30 rests upon the edge of the chair. The rib or tl'allsYtlisel) extending projection 18 divides these two curved portions 20 and of the closed end of the jaw one from the other and enables the jaw to be utilized on thick pieces as a support, such as, for instance, the crosspiece 26 of the bracket 25 and it also enables the holder to be firmly supported upon a comparativcl thin piece of furniture such as the rail 23 of a chair.

It will be seen that in the position assumed by the holder in full lines (Fig. 4) the leg tt' btairsagainst the back of the rail 28 of the chair while in the position assumed in dotted lines (Fig. 4;) the leg 15 bears against the front face of said portion of a chair, and the lamp is thus firmly held in ditl'erent positions relatively to the pcrson occupying the said chair, and thus the light can be thrown onto a boot; or paper which said person is reading at ditlcrent angles and be placed nearer to or farther from said book, as the case may be.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire by Letters Patent to secrre is:

1. A holder for an electric lamp consisting of a piece of sheet material bent to form a U-shaped jaw, said sheet material being extended from the free end of one leg of said jaw backwardly therebenmith to form a base and a tongue projecting from said base and adapted to have an electric lamp fastened thereto.

9. A holder for an electric lamp consisting of a piece of sheet material bent to form a U-shaped jaw, said sheet material being extended from the free end of one leg of said jaw baclnvardly thcrclaaieath to form a against the closed end of said U-shaped jaw 'thcrcbcvciul to form a base and constituting a brace, said brace adapted to have an electric lamp fastened thereto.

3. A holder tor an electric lamp consisb ing of a piece of sheet material bent to form a tl-sl1aped jaw, said sheet material being extended from the free end oi one leg at said jaw bacltwzn'dly thercbcneath to form a base and a tongue integral withsaid base and projecting therefrom against the closed end of said U-shaped jaw to which the free end of said tongue is fastened, said tongue constituting a brace adapted to have an electric lamp fastened thereto.

4. A holder "for an electric lamp consisting of a piece of sheet material bent to form a U-shapcd jaw, said sheet. material being cxtendedtrom the free end of one leg of said jaw backwardl therebcneath and and a tongue in tcgral with said base and projecting from that portion of said base which extends beyond said U-shaped jaw into contact with the closed end of said U-shaped jaw, to which closed end said tongue is fastened, said tongue constituting a brace adapted to have an electric lamp fastened thereto.

5. A holder for an electric lamp consistof a piece of sheet material bent to form a U--shaped jaw. said sheet material being extended from the free end of one leg of said jaw lmclni'ardtv thcrebcneath to form a base. the closed end of said U-shapcd jaw having a projection thereonextending inwardlv between the legs' of said U toward the free ends of said legs.

(3. A. holder for an electric lamp consisting' of a piece of sheet material bent to form a U-sha1 ed jaw. said sheet material being extended trout the free end of one leg of said jaw liacltwardly thercbeneath to form a basin the closed end of said U being bent transversely thereof to form a rib extending between the legs of said U toward the free ends of said legs.

7. A holder for an electric lamp consisting of a piece of sheet n'iaterial bent to form a U-shaped jaw, said sheet material being extended from the free end of one leg of said jaw lnicltwardlytherebcneath to form a base. a tongue projecting from said base against the closed end of said U-shaped jaw. a lamp socket, means to clamp said lamp socket to said tongue and an electric conductor extending from said lamp socket through said tongue and thence extending between said base and the leg of said jaw adjacent thereto and through a hole provided in the bent portion of said holder connecting said base and the leg adjacent thereto.

in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witlithh'th'.

SAMt tlli CLARK. \Yltlltssts: 

